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1. Stage 1 – Poverty Module
Citizenship Seniors
Programme Curriculum 2014

2.  Definition: general scarcity or dearth, or the
state of one who lacks a certain amount of
material possessions or money.
 Source:(Wihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pover
ty)

3.  3 billion people (half of the world) live on less than USD$2.50
a day
 The richest twenty percent of the world accounts for three
quarters of the world’s income whereas the poorest forty
percent of the world accounts for five percent of the world’s
income
 About 22,000 people die of poverty each day according to
UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency
Fund)

4.  Widespread diseases and hunger - One third of deaths, some 18 million
people a year or 50,000 per day, are due to poverty-related causes: in
total 270 million people, most of them women and children, have died
as a result of poverty since 1990. According to the World Health
Organization, hunger and malnutrition are the single gravest threats to
the world's public health and malnutrition is by far the biggest
contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases.
 Illiteracy - In the US educational system, these children are at a higher
risk than other children for retention in their grade, special placements
during the school's hours and even not completing their high school
education.
 Homelessness - Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of the world's
urban population, live in a poverty no better, if not worse, than rural
people, who are the traditional focus of the poverty in the developing
world, according to a report by the United Nations.
 Violence - 51% of fifth graders from New Orleans (median income for a
household: $27,133) have been found to be victims of violence,
compared to 32% in Washington, DC (mean income for a household:
$40,127).

5.  International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - This call was
made by Joseph Wresinski, founder of the International
Movement ATD Fourth World, and was officially recognised by
the United Nations in 1992.
 Government Schemes - Conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs
conditional upon the receivers' actions. The government only
transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria.
 Voluntary Welfare Organisations - Examples include the Center
for Global Development (CGD), Child Poverty Action Group, End
Poverty Now (EPN), and the United Nations Development Program
Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Poverty Assessment and
Monitoring.
 Individuals - Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Bank, a microfinance
organization and community development bank started in
Bangladesh. The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 was awarded jointly to
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank "for their efforts to create
economic and social development

6.  Founder of the Grameen bank, Dr. Muhammad Yunus was a
professor that started his banking career when he saw that
the people of a poor village were being enslaved by loan
sharks. He saw that he could help them by lending them
money from his own pocket, which could help them earn
more than enough to just survive, and he started a bank, now
named Grameen bank.(gram meaning ‘rural’ or ‘village’ in
Bengali) By the beginning of 2005, the bank had loaned
over USD 4.7 billion and by the end of 2008, USD 7.6 billion
to the poor.